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Watch: Da 5 Bloods 2020 123movies, Full Movie Online – From Academy Award® Winner Spike Lee comes a new joint: the story of four African American Vets – Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) – who return to Vietnam. Searching for the remains of their fallen Squad Leader (Chadwick Boseman) and the promise of buried treasure, our heroes, joined by Paul’s concerned son (Jonathan Majors), battle forces of Man and Nature – while confronted by the lasting ravages of The Immorality of The Vietnam War..
Plot: Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
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Ratings:

	6.5/10 Votes: 51,674
	92% | RottenTomatoes
	82/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 916 Popularity: 17.416 | TMDB

Reviews:

I enjoyed watching this.

‘Da 5 Bloods’ is very good, it kept me watching with interest from beginning to end. The cinematography is tremendous, there are many great looking scenes in this; the whole look of the film is top notch.

The run time could’ve perhaps been shorter, but most war films tend to go on for a while to be honest. I will say that I didn’t enjoy the start and end as much I did the middle, but there’s still enough in there. I would also agree that some of the real life imagery used is unnecessary.

The cast are excellent. Delroy Lindo is, for me, the star of the 156 minutes. He gives an outstanding performance as Paul, one I won’t be forgetting any time soon. It’s always a pleasure to see Chadwick Boseman (Norman), while Clarke Peters (Otis), Norm Lewis (Eddie) and Isiah Whitlock Jr. (Melvin) are all likeable in their respective roles.

I unquestionably, with zero doubt, like those four in the lead roles, but man the original cast list would’ve been absolutely incredible. Could you imagine Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, Giancarlo Esposito and John David Washington in this?! Gutted it didn’t happen, can’t lie.

Not a perfect film, but one I certainly felt entertained by.

Click here for a video version of this review: https://youtu.be/Ahb78xE_xyc

Hooked by the trailer, I keenly awaited the arrival of _Da 5 Bloods_ on Netflix. This is a new Spike Lee movie that follows four African-American veterans from the Vietnam War as they return to Vietnam decades later. Their reason for going back is twofold – they are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader but also to recover a pile of gold they buried while in-country.

I’ll start off with the things I enjoyed about this.

I thought it was great to see Delroy Lindo front and centre of this movie. He’s a great actor and he is by far the stand out in this. In fact the best part of the whole movie belongs to him in a fantastic monologue delivered directly to the camera. It sears and makes you feel uncomfortable to watch. His performance in those three or four minutes was so good that it elicits a reaction from you. It reminded a lot of the devastating monologue Jean Claude van Damme gives in his criminally underrated movie _JCVD_. It’s fantastic stuff.

The other thing I liked was that Lindo and crew were the same age through the whole film, be it in Vietnam during the war, or in the present day. There seems to be some confusion online about this, my take on it was that this was an artistic choice to show how memories of the war stayed with the guys. When they reminisced from the present day, the things that happened to them back during the war were still affecting them. It was an effective way to get this across.

Also from an artistic point of view I thought the way the aspect ratio of the screen changed depending on whether it was present day or during war was great. It gave you a visual reminder of the change of tone and storyline.

So those were some good things that really stood out to me. On the other side there were a number of things that I found quite distracting about this, things that took me out of the film.

Like how within the first 10mins there is a dig at Donald Trump. One of the characters refers to him as “President Fake Bone Spurs” which was a funny joke in passing, but then we switch to some actual footage of Trump at a rally and the on screen graphic identifies him as President Fake Bone Spurs. There’s digs like this all the way through and it felt odd and shoehorned in for a movie about Vietnam. To the point where towards the end of the movie, the biggest a-hole in the movie literally puts on a Make America Great Again hat. Like, we get it bro, you don’t like Trump, can we please get back to the treasure hunt now?

At times the movie does a subtle job of speaking its message, but at other times it feels too heavy handed. Lee treats his audience like idiots by having a character go on to explain a point that he had subtly made just in case you didn’t get it, and then at other times like with the MAGA hat, he just slaps you in the face like as if nuance is beyond you. I think this means that for some viewers, rather than getting them thinking and the dialogue being thought provoking, it will just entrench them deeper in their beliefs by getting defensive.

I also felt that the movie was too long. It clocks in at just over two and a half hours and it drags in places. At one point I thought “man this has been going for ages and we’re not even in the jungle yet” and looked at the timer to see I was only around 45mins in and there was still nearly two hours to go. I kinda feel like it could have benefited from a couple more sessions in the editing suite.

There was one thing I couldn’t work out – one of the 5 Bloods has a scene where he reconnects with a lady he had a relationship with during the war. But the thing is she is nowhere near old enough to have been in her 20s in the 1960s, and the daughter they had is also nowhere near old enough to have been born in the late 1960s. Was it an odd casting choice or was their underlying explanation for it? If anyone knows, let me know!

So yeah, overall it was a bit of a odd experience. It has moments of good stuff, but for me, the down times were too many and too long. This would have been a much better movie if it had a shorter runtime, and less over-explaining of its political messaging.

As a Fourth Infantry grunt I found this film to really be a misleading view on the race relations in Nam!
It’s a shame that Spike Lee had to ruin what could have been an interesting take on the Vietnam war! As a ground pounder through 67-68 we all functioned as brothers in arms and backed each other no matter what race we represented. We fought together, cried together and laughed together. I wish they would have looked at facts vs myths when it came to putting this on the big screen. In light of what’s happening in our world today this movie lacks truth and moral consciousness!!

A Spike Lee Disjoint
Much as I admire Spike Lee’s talent and audacity, this film just didn’t work for me. Too many preposterous plot points while the motivations (of everyone, it seemed) were never clear. The whole thing was just confusing.

And yes, disjointed.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 34 min (154 min)
Budget 45000000
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Adventure, Drama, War
Director Spike Lee
Writer Danny Bilson, Paul De Meo, Kevin Willmott
Actors Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 40 wins & 198 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround 7.1, DTS (DTS: X)
Aspect Ratio 1.33 : 1 (flashback scenes), 1.78 : 1 (present day scenes: jungle), 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa LF, Arri Rental DNA LF Lenses, Arri Alexa Mini, Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Arriflex 416, Zeiss Super Speed and Canon Lenses (some scenes), Canon 1014 XL-S (some scenes)
Laboratory Company 3, New York (NY), USA (16mm film dailies) (color and finish) (digital intermediate), EC3 (digital dailies), Pro8mm, Burbank (CA), USA (Super 8mm film processing), Spectra Film & Video, North Hollywood (CA), USA (16mm film processing)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 16 mm (Kodak Ektachrome 100D 7285), 8 mm (Kodak Ektachrome 100D 7285), Codex
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (2.8K) (4.5K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), Dolby Vision, Spherical (source format) (some scenes), Super 16 (source format) (some scenes), Super 8 (source format) (some scenes)
Printed Film Format DCP Digital Cinema Package, Video (UHD)